Tha Realest
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Welcome to the boards! Enjoy your time here.I love Jennifer Lewis and I love Mama Odie! I'm glad to see she's enjoying herself and enjoying the ride!Wish I was there with them having fun... *sigh*
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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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easyrowrdw
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There were storms in the area in the early evening that shut down the outdoor rides. They cleared the queue at Tiana’s at some point. I was in the 6:29 callback group. When I arrived at 7:25 I think they had just reopened. It was essentially a walk-on. As I exited the ride I heard guests arriving at the line saying they’d been cleared earlier. I saw the line at 4:00 and it was winding all around outside. I wonder if they didn’t call more groups because so many people were sent off throughout the day?
Brer Panther
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In regards to everyone wondering if Disney will improve the ride or tweak it or whatever, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no.
Imagine it: Louis decides to build his own ride, and he invites us, Tiana and Naveen to go on it. The entire thing is filled with plywood cutouts and obviously fake sets, there are spoofs of other Disney attractions along the way, and none of the effects are working. And eventually the vehicle goes off the track and smashes through the wall and out of the building. But at least you get an on-ride photo!
You joke, but I'd be shocked any of those attractions survived under Iger's leadership.
Yeah, I'm not buying the "oh, you can't judge it from a ride video, you have to go on it!" excuse. The Ratatouille ride didn't look any more impressive to me when I rode it when it did in the POV. It feels like just another excuse for pro-rethemers to move the goalposts and shut up any criticism of the ride.
Yeah, the Louis ones, maybe. The miscellaneous animals are about as "impressive" as the ones in the Little Mermaid ride.
Well said.
Y'know what? A Princess and the Frog attraction in the style of "Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari 1.5" would be a lot more fun than Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
Imagine it: Louis decides to build his own ride, and he invites us, Tiana and Naveen to go on it. The entire thing is filled with plywood cutouts and obviously fake sets, there are spoofs of other Disney attractions along the way, and none of the effects are working. And eventually the vehicle goes off the track and smashes through the wall and out of the building. But at least you get an on-ride photo!
That CGI animation is so bad (even Chicken Little had better animation than that!). Tiana - both the animatronics and the CGI version on that screen - looks tremendously off-model. I'm beginning to doubt that Walt Disney Animation Studios actually did the animation for this ride like that one press release claimed.
Incomudro
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I got it to the extent of that the rabbit was being perused by the fox and bear, and ultimately escaped and found his way to Home Sweet Home again.
I didn't get that he live in the briar patch and used reverse psychology on the fox to get tossed back into it again.
Chalk that up to the dialog not being clearly audible, and rides spaced a minimum of one year apart from each other.
HonorableMention
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Can’t post the video here but a certain site uploaded a ridethrough yesterday and it had the most animatronic issues I’ve seen so far:
- First Louis and Tiana figures in the bayou didn’t trigger, and instead did their idle animations while their dialogue played (may have been intentional to help with sensor issues and to keep the ride operating)
- Finale Tiana only had movement in her head (which looks creepy)
- Finale Mama Odie was completely static
I really think Disney should reframe this as a technical rehearsal rather than an AP preview.
- First Louis and Tiana figures in the bayou didn’t trigger, and instead did their idle animations while their dialogue played (may have been intentional to help with sensor issues and to keep the ride operating)
- Finale Tiana only had movement in her head (which looks creepy)
- Finale Mama Odie was completely static
I really think Disney should reframe this as a technical rehearsal rather than an AP preview.
Mr. Sullivan
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Agree to disagree, I suppose.
I look forward to them getting it sorted and enjoying this the way its intended to be seen.
ConfettiCupcake
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Technical rehearsal would imply this attraction isn’t always going to be running with some AAs and effects at less than 100%. I’m not sure this isn’t going to somewhat be the norm.
DisneyHead123
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Random thought - I was watching the Imagineering documentary on D+ yesterday and saw the moving sparkly light effect in Mystic Manor. Wonder why they didn’t use that for the fireflies in TBA? It seems like an obvious fit. Also could have filled in some of the quieter areas with cool effects.
Off a POV from today:
Goin' Down the Bayou
Goin' Down the Bayou
- Show lights are seemingly out where the geese were, leaving the scene very shadowy (Revenge of the shadow man?)
- Timoleon seems to not be rocking back and forth
- Beau the Possum isn’t rocking back and forth
- PawPaw’s hand is broken again (It was fixed in a different POV)
- Claude (father bear) is seemingly falling backwards and isn’t rocking back and forth as fast as he should be.
- None of the frogs in the former Laughin’ Place are working.
- Mama Odie resets twice (Seriously, why even include the leaves? Just have Odie out the entire time. It's just obvious she's resetting between lines.
- Lottie isn’t swaying back and forth
- Eudora isn’t moving at all
- Tiana isn’t moving from the neck down
- Mama Odie seems to have had a stroke as her right side isn’t moving
Tha Realest
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It’s buggy everywhere and incoherent even when it fully works, but at least relevance has been activated.
What a sad joke.
On a side note, I'm hoping for DL's that they remove the leaf transition with Odie right before the big lift hill.
I get its supposed to be her peering down at tiny us, but the swirling leaves give off a Power Point transition feeling between lines. Just have Odie looking down the entire time and going "Ah there you are!" when the log hits the senor.
I get its supposed to be her peering down at tiny us, but the swirling leaves give off a Power Point transition feeling between lines. Just have Odie looking down the entire time and going "Ah there you are!" when the log hits the senor.
EricsBiscuit
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I rode the WDWRR recently and the shudders blocking the view of the finale look permanent. I hope that they open them up towards opening but it is worrying they haven’t done so already.
dreamfinding
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I’m scheduled for the d23 preview next weekend. Disney was very specific in the verbiage that we are welcome to ride as much as we want during the event. Starting to believe that this is going to be an issue…
dreamfinding
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They probably won’t do anything until the 28th
_caleb
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In my opinion, some of the best attractions at the parks would look less than impressive on POV videos.
- Tiki Room
- Swiss Family Treehouse
- Space Mountain
- Flight of Passage
Tha Realest
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No one is comparing those attractions POV videos to this; many (most?) of us have experienced Splash, so we have a reference point.
Videos don’t miss an incoherent plot or non-working AAs/screens.
_caleb
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I was the one comparing POVs of those attractions to TBA's. Did you see the post I was quoting? He said:
Good point about most of us having ridden Splash (I know Brer Panther certainly did!) and therefore having a reference point. But wouldn't you agree that experiencing most rides in-person is different than watching them on video? Often in ways that can make a huge difference on our perception of what makes a ride impressive?
MerlinTheGoat
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The problem again is that the specific issues that are being levied against Tiana are by and large issues that are not going to change or become better by riding it in person. The number of AA's is not going to magically go up if I am physically sitting in the boat, all of those areas that used to have characters before are not going to suddenly become occupied again. Nor is the movement of the new critter figures going to improve upon riding it either. I'm also not going to enjoy the finale song more by riding it. Nor is the dialog going to get any less stupid.
These are comparisons that incidentally do not require a person to have ever ridden Splash either. For instance, i've never ridden the Disneyland or Tokyo versions of Splash and can still easily tell they are still far and away better than TBA (and both have quite different scenery compared to WDW's Splash). Already good rides are typically more enjoyable when you're physically present in them. That isn't up for debate. There are nevertheless still a ton of elements that are possible to analyze without having ever been on them.
My overall opinions on an attraction's scenes do not typically shift significantly in the opposite direction after experiencing it in person. An attraction that I already enjoy will either remain relatively the same or be improved somewhat, while an attraction I already thought is poor will usually remain that way or occasionally become even worse (Frozen and Little Mermaid are examples that are worse in person than on video, i'd argue Test Track v2 as well). Same goes for the middling ones.
Keep in mind that there were also people who were and are praising TBA without ever riding it as well. Quite a few in this thread. And yet there is a conspicuous lack of proportional complaining towards them by comparison.